Name/Title
Little Women / Louisa M. AlcottEntry/Object ID
2015.7.29Description
Bound for Beauty #4
341 p.
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Part First only: copyright 1868, 1869 printing. The first printing was 1868, it was published with no mention of a second part, which was printed in April 1869.
Printed after the last page of text: "End of Part First. Part Second, completing Little Women is published in a volume to match this." Without Part One on the spine.Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' BindingsLexicon
Search Terms
March family, Fiction, 1860sDimensions
Height
6-3/4 inWidth
4-1/2 inBook Details
Author
Louisa May AlcottIllustrator
Louisa May AlcottPublisher
Roberts BrothersPlace Published
City
BostonState/Province
MassachusettsCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Published
1869Printer
Stereotyped by Innes & Regan, 55 Water Street, Presswork by John Wilson and Son)Place Printed
City
BostonState/Province
MassachusettsCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Printed
1869Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's BindingBinding Notes
Bound in a green cloth binding with gilt titles to cover and spine enclosed within a decorated oval. This is a uniform binding published by Roberts. Illustrated by May Alcott with a frontis plate and three additional plates. Brown stone endpapers.Notes
Previous owner's name is faintly written on front endpaper.Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
John Wilson & SonNotes
printer.Person or Organization
Innes & ReganNotes
stereotyper.Exhibition
Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection